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Gold/Mining/Energy : SunPower Announces Initial Public Offering SPWR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SaphionLithium who wrote (11)	3/2/2006 12:44:55 PM
From: Jim Oravetz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196

Any early stage company like this may not have many analyist following it. Look at the 12/14 posts from EETimes... ...The 21 percent efficiency of current SunPower cells compares with typical photovoltaic-cell efficiencies in the industry of 14 or 15 percent, Rodgers said, and more improvement is possible. Werner said that lab breakthroughs in polarization, whereby changes in the cell configuration and grounding polarity improve current-leakage specs, have not yet been implemented in production cells. "We foresee further improvements in conversion efficiency, and we fully anticipate the Philippines fab being capable of turning out the equivalent of 100 megawatts a year," he said. SunPower's task for 2006 will be to bring solar panels into contractor and home-builder channels and to get architects interested in working with the panels. In early October, teams from Colorado University's Boulder campus and Virginia Polytechnic Institute used SunPower panels for their entries in a Solar Decathlon that the Department of Energy sponsored on the National Mall in Washington. The Colorado team's solar-powered house took the grand prize; the Virginia Tech team won two design awards. Julie Blunden, vice president of external affairs at SunPower, said the Colorado and Virginia Tech teams complemented each other, focusing on power efficiency and architectural aesthetics, respectively.... I would look at the improved efficiency claim. Perhaps the CU or VPI school web site have info on the technology that would be useful to some extent. FYI, I am not an investor. I know the parent corp - Cypress Semiconductor - and thought this spin off was interesting.